Bill Text: NY A02894 | 2019-2020 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Relates to the funding of certain CUNY programs by the state including the city university of New York's accelerated study in associate program (ASAP) and the accelerate, complete, engage (ACE) program; state shall pay until both programs are fully funded.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-01-08 - referred to higher education [A02894 Detail]

Download: New_York-2019-A02894-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          2894
                               2019-2020 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 28, 2019
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        Introduced by M. of A. PICHARDO -- read once and referred to the Commit-
          tee on Higher Education
        AN ACT to amend the education law, in relation to the funding of certain
          CUNY programs by the state
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. The education law is amended by adding a new  section  6217
     2  to read as follows:
     3    § 6217. ASAP and ACE program funding. Notwithstanding any law, rule or
     4  regulation  to  the  contrary, beginning in the two thousand twenty--two
     5  thousand twenty-one fiscal year, the state shall appropriate and pay  an
     6  amount  equal to twenty-five per centum of the annual one hundred forty-
     7  one million dollars in funding for the city  university  of  New  York's
     8  accelerated study in associate programs (ASAP) and accelerate, complete,
     9  engage  (ACE)  program for the two thousand twenty--two thousand twenty-
    10  one academic year. Each fiscal year thereafter, the state shall increase
    11  such funding amount by twenty-five per  centum  until  one  hundred  per
    12  centum  of  both programs is funded by the state.  The maximum amount of
    13  total funding by two thousand twenty-four shall not exceed  one  hundred
    14  fifty million dollars.
    15    § 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD04263-02-9